'Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Bengal can be the game changers of 2024.' IMAGE: Narendra D Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party's supreme leader, arrives with BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda to......
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday for treatment of viral respiratory infection. IMAGE: Congress Parliamentary Party......
'Why does Mr Modi only attack Nehru from the Dynasty?''At one level, it is pure politics,' notes Shekhar Gupta. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Does Narendra Modi suffer from some......
Anjuli Bhargava discovers Brand Abha Adams.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Abha Adams, 66, has an abiding memory of her own school days. Standing with her two thin plaits among a......
'Though the RSS honours Sardar Patel, who actually banned it, the real hero in the story of its rise is Jayaprakash Narayan,' says Vir Sanghvi. IMAGE: In just two years, Jayaprakash Narayan, seen......
RPG managed to grow his business rapidly in both the pre-reform and post- reform periods, mainly through acquisitions, notes Kunal BoseBorn and raised in Kolkata, Rama Prasad Goenka spent a lot of......
Satish Magar is an interesting combination -- he comes from a political, land-owner background but had an urban, Western education. He then opted for agricultural college, but went on to find a......
Last week, I had written about the need to distinguish between the Left and the Leftists. The Left idea, after all, is not as bad as some Leftists have made it.Indeed, it is a necessary idea. In......
An amateurish crime comedy that wants to be taken seriously, Mrs Undercover can never quite find its bearings, observes Sukanya Verma. In the 1980s, Basu Chatterjee created a television series......
India Lockdown has way too much carnal pleasure on its mind to focus on minor things like coronavirus, sighs Sukanya Verma. It was only a matter of time before film-makers would scramble to make......
1997: A fast and furious year for Bollywood. Superstar Sridevi married producer Boney Kapoor and gave birth to her firstborn Janhvi. Shah Rukh Khan turned daddy when wife Gauri delivered Aryan.......
'You can be a great actress, incredibly good looking, have a huge body of work, have National awards... but until you make a mark in a Hindi project, people will not bother.' Photograph: Kind......
'Basuda hardly spoke, but he had a sense of humour and that showed in his films.'Subhash K Jha salutes Basu Chatterjee and his memorable films. Sooraj Barjatya owes Basu Chatterjee an apology for......